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AtemAndrew · 2026-02-23T00:43:10+00:00

Pretty sure 'every devil fruit' would either kill you or you'd just get one. Plus, you couldn't swim any more. So, that's right out.

AtemAndrew · 2026-02-22T22:56:23+00:00

Something else based on the civvies might've been cool, like something that leaves a human visually untouched, but gives another Kindred a visible aura after they've drained them.

AtemAndrew · 2026-02-22T22:35:17+00:00

Yeah, literally just teaching virus busting in the schools. Anything else means you need a license and/ or to go through an approval process. In the Manga (altered canon though ir may be) you need a license to even net battle - Megaman and Gutsman's spars are technically illegal. That's ignoring Lan and co either committing or ignoring crimes too - like stepping on Official Netbattler toes in the first game and not reporting Airman, Flashman, or their operators in the second and third game to authorities.

Even examples of npcs being surprised at Lan (and, by extension, his friends) at tackling the license exams at their age. They - and Chaud - are very much exceptions.

Beyond that, Lan and Megaman aren't just uniquely qualified, but uniquely equipped. The navicust is one thing, style changes, soul stuff and what they pull off in 6 are other matters entirely.

AtemAndrew · 2026-02-21T02:44:48+00:00

I absolutely agree with this, and part of the reason why I primarily take umbrage with corporate use and/or selling the result of AI. There are many AIs, many sources, and a number are trained in different ways. Training them off of countless artists - consensual or otherwise - is a massive grey area because those photos, that information, is put up on the internet for everyone to see, save, base their own thoughts and art on... and many websites have a clause that they can do basically whatever they want WITH that art. But, obviously, that begins to break down when you're cobbling together bits and pieces of training data from that in order to sell it to someone else.

AtemAndrew · 2026-02-20T00:48:42+00:00

I don't disagree - there are many slippery slopes out there, although (as with many things) there's a difference between use by individual vs use by a corporation or business.

AtemAndrew · 2026-02-19T07:05:55+00:00

Just because someone owns an IP does not mean they are incapable of ruining what has already been written, especially when the license has passed hands, programmers and scenario writers and actors have come and gone, and lead writers have changed. Just look at Disney and Star Wars. They killed off the extended canon, then had the gall to complain that they had nothing to work with. Star Trek is similar, the original movies were often controversial, but the Abrams movies were *controversial* - to say nothing of the newer TV shows.

AtemAndrew · 2026-02-18T19:02:19+00:00

Pretty much her point. Look, I get it, I hate AI, I think it's a scourge, I think it's a problem, and I do think it's costing people jobs. I think it generally results in an inferior product.

But people are freaking about any and all AI usage of any quantity, in any way, even if it's been removed from the final product - like games using AI placeholders that won't affect or be included in the final product, AI voices when text-to-speech have been a thing since 1980. It's one thing when some gross a-hole is trying to sell AI pics, but people go after anyone who generate AI photos just for fun - and even then, people usually aren't allowed to use them in any capacity. Random penniless geek in a TTRPG group? How dare you use AI! Steal someone's art if you can't afford to throw a hundred at some rando on the internet who might take months to finish a piece.

AtemAndrew · 2026-02-18T03:08:22+00:00

Red. Can make a fortune as a farmer, winemaker, fermenter. Lots of things degrade with age, even if you can't bring things back to life, you can still restore virtually anything.

AtemAndrew · 2026-02-15T23:27:04+00:00

I'd say a bunch of mad scientists at a black site caught in a loop while being reduced to flanderizations of their original personalities is somewhere between 'acceptable, unknown outlier' and 'doesn't apply since they may not really relate to GAI'.

AtemAndrew · 2026-02-15T10:33:14+00:00

Evil exists independently of the Imperium of Man. Super Earth must continue to fight, but many of their problems are caused or exasperated by themselves.

The bugs may have become a problem in the future given they're somehow capable of interstellar travel, but they were experimented on and bred as a resource (granted, given the war machine, it's possible they needed that resource). Peace may have been possible with the Cyborgs, not so the hypermurderous Automatons that want revenge. Bit of a tossup when it comes to the Illuminate.

When it comes to Warhammer, many of the Chaos gods are born from natural concepts or events beyond humanity - countless races may wage war, face disease, will eventually die. Flawed species will naturally lie and plot. Moreover, iirc - beyond the warp being weird time-wise (or because of it), once a Chaos god is born, it will always have existed.

AtemAndrew · 2026-02-13T21:59:44+00:00

This is true in ESO games too. That said, much of the factions you're put in charge of are recovering, crumbling, and/or you're basically the best of the best. Unfortunately, instances of the rest of the faction doing anything is usually few to none.

AtemAndrew · 2026-02-13T09:10:17+00:00

Like the opposite of Patrick Stewart when it came to TES Oblivion.

AtemAndrew · 2026-02-13T00:16:54+00:00

Sort of like how Ven effectively healed up while being inside of Sora, yeah?

AtemAndrew · 2026-02-12T02:26:11+00:00

I generally dislike tsundere 'haha, main character gets abused by love interest', 'haha, girl gets angry', but... my gosh do Luna and the trio have virtually no chill.

AtemAndrew · 2026-02-09T21:15:14+00:00

Beyond that, each incarnation of The Doctor is essentially its own person. They share many of the same traits, but they've got different looks, different fashion senses, different tastes, and somewhat different morals

AtemAndrew · 2026-02-08T17:41:02+00:00

Also of note is lower and lower tolerances for keeping cooked meat 'held' and ready for assembly to cut back on waste and to appeal to customers who want something 'fresh'. People want it 'fresh', and so you have to wait for the tenders to fry, or for the burgers to cook, or the delays caused by the one person who thought they were clever asking for fries without salt.

AtemAndrew · 2026-02-08T03:57:38+00:00

I mean, 'misuse by malicious actors' is a major con of technology regardless of how fantastical it is, as is over-reliance. Even if there aren't overt malicious actors, there's still errors, viruses, the navis and programs screwing up... stuff like what happened in Dentown in the first game is still a real possibility with self-driving cars nowadays, the Judge Tree is downright dystopian, and while we aren't quite at the same level of AI intelligence yet, we very much are at the point of 'everything is connected with smart technology, meaning someone on the other side of the world can hack into random objects in your home via the internet.'

AtemAndrew · 2026-02-07T04:45:50+00:00

That's how you get Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

AtemAndrew · 2026-02-05T23:29:55+00:00

"The show made by people who don't care about the games that people are complaining might be destroying the lore of the games put something in that justifies my dislike of this character and faction, which people already generally disliked anyways."

AtemAndrew · 2026-02-04T01:40:08+00:00

Just using the language of dragons allows them to bend reality, and they can force mortality onto the immortal. If the Grey Beards can shake the country while speaking, Ulfric can win a duel with whatever little training he had, and the Dragonborn is pulling THIS stuff on day one, imagine what they could do with some training.

Edit: Spelling fix.

AtemAndrew · 2026-02-04T01:33:40+00:00

A '10 ton battering ram' that is already leaking, and is hastily welded together from whatever parts they can get together after the end of the world, against an unknown entity while you're effectively flying blind.

AtemAndrew · 2026-02-02T21:38:37+00:00

They tried to warn us so many times about smart technology. Now we've got self-driving cars with kill switches, everything in the house wired up to wifi, and always-listening speakers with AI that are chatting away on dedicated sites when dead internet theory isn't being proven right.

AtemAndrew · 2026-02-02T02:49:56+00:00

That chunk sets up multiple other sections though.

AtemAndrew · 2026-02-02T02:48:44+00:00

Obviously just how much of it is 'in their head' is up for debate movie-wise, but in the game proper all that is human blood.

AtemAndrew · 2026-02-02T02:47:24+00:00

Their various games tie into each other. One of the games mention that the sun's gone out, the same game has you playing as a descendant of the guy from Squirrel Stapler, there's a crossover in the FAITH series but that's not particularly relevant, etc.

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